A dispute that started raging ten months ago in the Cycling Association ended without controversy on Sunday. Dion Leslie was elected president winning over one other candidate with a comfortable margin. That candidate was not former President Emil Moreno who lost his bid to contest when the Cayo Elections were ruled by the National Olympic Committee as irregular and had to be –re-done, boxing Moreno out of the balloting. So, after 10 months of being in the wilderness, there is now some normalcy in cycling and a new National Executive. Leslie told us today he hopes they can move forward:..
Dion Leslie - President - Belize Cycling Association
"Basically, it's the future of cycling because now it means that we can move forward. We were at a standstill since October of last year, back and forth - the uncertainty in cycling when it came to sponsors, cyclists, when it came to fans and now since we've passed this point now, we've had fair elections and it was over seen by national Olympic committees' electoral body - we can move forward now. I said it already that this doesn't mean that new people are in meaning the old crowd goes out - I've said it that the crowd that was in, Mr. Moreno himself, Mr. Swift - all the people who didn't support our efforts - we will extend an olive branch to them and bring them in. Their experience in cycling, I probably won't have for another 10 or 15 years. It's not about me, not about the people who oppose Mr. Moreno, it's about the sport itself and about the cyclist and the fans. What we want to do is to set up a committee that will only deal with races, at the beginning of the year this committee will meet and schedule the races in the race calendar and from there start to see sponsorship for these races and then organize these races - so we do have a plan when it comes to races, existing races and to improve on more races."
Leslie is backed up by Vice Presidents: Orson Butler, Cordell Gordon and Daniel Cano along with
Committee Members Sheena Castillo, Fitzgerald 'Palas' Joseph and Gilroy Spence.
AS Leslie mentioned, the election was supervised by the National Olympic Commission Election Commission.
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